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K2 Literary Fall 2020 France, Holland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain K2 Literary Fall 2020 France, Holland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain K2 Literary Email: [email protected] | http://www.k2literary.com facebook.com/K2Literary @K2Literary Logo design by Ingrid Paulson Design Contents fiction Marianne Apostolides .......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Matt Cahill ............................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Nancy Jo Cullen .................................................................................................................................................................... 7 J.J. Dupuis .............................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Chris Eaton .......................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Samantha Garner ................................................................................................................................................................ 11 Derek Mascarenhas ............................................................................................................................................................ 12 A.G. Pasquella ..................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Susan Perly .......................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Laisha Rosnau ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Sheung-King ....................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Anne Stone .......................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Teri Vlassopoulos ............................................................................................................................................................... 19 Iona Whishaw ..................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Andrew Wilmot .................................................................................................................................................................. 21 Lindsay Zier-Vogel ............................................................................................................................................................. 22 nonfiction Michelle Bilodeau and Karen Cleveland ......................................................................................................................... 24 Del Cowie ............................................................................................................................................................................ 25 Cynthia Cruz ....................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Christopher Dewolf ............................................................................................................................................................ 27 Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford ................................................................................................................................ 28 Ariel Gordon ....................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Emily Lycopolus ................................................................................................................................................................. 30 Erika Nielsen ....................................................................................................................................................................... 31 Bahar Orang ........................................................................................................................................................................ 32 Amanda Orlando ................................................................................................................................................................ 33 Hana Shafi ........................................................................................................................................................................... 34 Johanna Skibsrud................................................................................................................................................................ 35 Erin Wunker ........................................................................................................................................................................ 36 Julia Zarankin ..................................................................................................................................................................... 37 children's/YA Charlene Challenger .......................................................................................................................................................... 39 fiction Fiction Marianne Apostolides I Can't Get You Out of My Mind “Apostolides has established herself as a writer who takes on the most intimate, perverse, and complicated elements of human desire fearlessly and intellectually. She has a slightly terrifying ability to ride the most emotionally charged idea to its devastating conclusion.” –Canadian Notes & Queries What does it mean to say “I love you”? Ariadne is a single, fortysomething writer and mother embroiled in an affair with a married man. At the core of her current manuscript, a book about the declaration of love, is the need to understand why: why her lover has returned to his wife, why their relationship still lingers in her mind, why she’s unable to conquer her longing. To make ends meet while writing, she joins a research study in which she’s paid to live with an AI device called Dirk. But the study quickly enters uncharted territory. Capable of mapping Ariadne’s brain—and, to Publication: April 2020 some extent, reading her mind—Dirk calls into question issues of both privacy and conscious- Publisher: Book*hug ness: how we communicate our thoughts to others, what it means to embody our desires, and (K2 Literary selling UK/ANZ/ whether we ought to act on them. translation rights) Rights Sold: -Book*hug (World) Marianne Apostolides is the author of seven books, three of which have been translated. She is a two-time recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and winner of the 2017 K.M. Hunter Award for Literature. Born in suburban New York, Marianne now lives in Toronto. Photo credit: Jorjas Photography Jorjas credit: Photo 5 Fiction Matt Cahill Radioland Kris is an alt-rock musician who abruptly drops out of his popular band to rake over an un- processed trauma from his childhood; Jill is an outcast who operates in the shadows of the city, cursed with a dangerous type of magic that draws mysterious strangers to her. By chance, they start a correspondence with each other and a strange relationship begins—one that coils around their lives like a macabre spell. As they share their stories with one another, they each approach Cover the source of their misery and risk losing themselves, even their lives, in a darkness that seems to destined for them. come Everything Jill senses tells an intense story, so she numbs herself with alcohol to keep her head clear, hoping she'll meet someone who can tell her how she came to be the way she is. Kris struggles to maintain his grip on reality as he pulls apart the threads that make up his identity. Working through fallen mentors, splintered identities, and substance dependency, the two of them try to help each other make sense of their lives, though it may ultimately reveal one of them as a serial murderer. Manuscript available soon Radioland explores the absurdity of fame, the toxicity of trauma, and the morbid dangers un- Agent: Kelvin Kong earthed as we seek a greater understanding of ourselves. Rights Sold: Radioland is Matt Cahill's second novel, and steps further into the metaphysical social realism All rights available he has employed in his short fiction as well as in his debut novel, The Society of Experience, which Harper's Bazaar magazine picked as one of the best of fall 2015. Matt Cahill is a Toronto writer. His novel, The Society of Experience (Wolsak & Wynn), was picked as one of the top reads of 2015 by Harper’s Bazaar. His short fiction has been published with Found Press and The Rusty Toque. His non-fiction has appeared in the Humber Literary Review, Torontoist, Ryeberg, and Best Canadian Essays 2017. Photo credit: Katia Taylor Photography Taylor Katia credit: Photo 6 Fiction Nancy Jo Cullen The Western Alienation Merit Badge “A queer prairie novel
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